International investor`s!! 257 hectares of this LUCRATIVE MACADAMIA farm is IN A CLASS OF IT`S OWN: From the different variety of Macadamia trees, to the de-husking facility, the drying facility, the cracking and roasting and oil bottling. State of the art, brand new equipment. INNOVATIVE, WORLD CLASS AGROPROSESSING FACILITIES AND PROCESSES are applied on this farm. The farmer focusses strongly on sustainability and ensures that the best on-farm practices are used. There is a brand new, HUGE, solar panel plant that means that the farm is off the grid and independent from ESKOM. There are 120 thriving beehives to ensure optimal pollination.
Only the best of the best with regards to everything on the farm. Everything works like a well oiled machine with efficacy and quality being the
goal. The staff is efficient and well trained to know exactly what roles they need to fulfill to maintain optimal standards. This farm is PRISTINE in every way! 257 Hectares of perfect, rows upon rows of the most beautiful, strong and healthy Macadamia trees that I have ever seen. A total of 39 974 trees of various varieties. LAND CLAIMS HAVE BEEN REJECTED BY the Land Claims Court.
The farm comprises of the following:
1) THE MACADAMIA ORCHARDS:
The Macadamia orchards are 18 blocks in total, approximately 150 hectares. The preparation of the ground has been done by the farmer himself with a dozer, deep ribbed all the fields with 6 tons per hectare lime and then rigged up The trees have all been planted to face North to South due to the farm`s topography ( on ridges, except 2 blocks, also due to the topography of the land ). The farm is considered as a flat farm. The spacing between the trees in the rows are 4 m and spacing between the rows are 9 m, which allows for 277 trees per hectare. This spacing allows for optimal harvesting when the trees are all fully matured.
Varieties: Beaumont, V A38, Nelmac2, 863, A4, 816, 814, 814, 863.
2)GRAZING CAMPS:
Approximately 47 hectare are divided into 4 cattle camps. Brazz grass has been planted to improve grazing quality, and cattle paddocks and day camps are in place. There is a cattle handling facility, consisting of an all steel crush and neck clamping in the concrete floor. There are steel gates, water drinkers an all the camps and paddock. All new fences are made with CCA treated, wooden poles and droppers. There is a newly built shed an lean-to for cattle to sleep inside during rain. There is also a newly built loading bay for cattle.
3)CONSERVANCY AREA:
The game/ conservancy camp is fenced off with a 2 meter Bonnox fence, all steel material. Inside the game camp is a 1.2 meter high fenced off camp of 2 hectare, where razz seed pasture had been planted, to be grazed controlled. The game consists of Blesbuck, Impala, Nyala, blue and grey duikers and common reedbuck. The total game count comes to plus minus 80 animals, and the conservancy area is 26.1 hectares.
4) The natural bush/ timber/ roads/ dam/ comprise 38.5 hectares.
5) IMPLEMENT SHED:
This shed has a 600 m2 reinforced concrete floor that is dozer proof and there is single phase as well as 3 phase electricity installed with 5 foot double, neon lights. All the steel structures
have white CHROMADECK sheeting and cladding. The 2 lean-to`s, one on each side have been compacted G5 filling flooring with a concrete strip in front of them of 180m2 each.
6) WORK SHOP:
The workshop is an ALL STEEL construction with zink/ sheets, an attic/ brick wall, roll-up, huge door in-front and a concrete floor. Inside is a separate tool room with a loft, made for storage. The tool room has numerous plugs for 3 phase, and single phase electricity. In the store an tool room there are 5 foot double tube, neon lights. The brick walls have steel windows. Every window has been fitted with sturdy burglar bars and steel doors. On the left side of the workshop is a lean-to with concrete flooring. It is an ALL STEEL structure with a sink aluminum roof, 395m2 in size. There is also a canopy for a generator.
7) OFFICE BUILDING:
The office has 2 open plan offices as well as an archive, a bathroom and a kitchen. It also has electricity, hot water and internet with WIFI-connection. There are 2 built-in concrete safes and the size of the office is 101 square meters. All electrical roof/ trussers, air-conditioning, the office floor has been recently retiled and has a new electrical DB board and a phase failure DB board. All the windows and front door have been fitted with Trelli security purposes. An internet Booster and Nano Station Connection provide internet to the house and school There is a security monitor/ hard drive Nano Station plus an Omni Aerial installed. It is connected to a PTz Camera system at the entrance gate. Not far from the office there are 2 concrete silos that are utilized as water reservoirs and an extra store room.
8) OUTSIDE BUILDINGS:
Consisting of a home school, boat garage with a roll-up door, camping store room and a butchery room, with a cold room, built into the room with a total size of 95m2. This is a plastered brick building with a concrete floor and origan pine refurbished doors. The school room has been fitted with a 12000 BTU air-conditioner with windows that have Trelli burglar bars. The school room has a new CHROMADECK roof plus trusses. The building has single and 3 phase electricity plugs, a concrete floor, ceiling throughout and WIFI connection.
9) OUTSIDE BUILDING:
This building consists of a storeroom/ chemical room that is 133m2 in size, plastered brick wall with a concrete floor and a sink roof. Part of the chemical room has been fitted with shelves and an aluminum glass, front door that is locked, for keeping control of the chemicals. The store room has a loft for storage. The rest of the building consists of a separate garage with a wooden door and a ceiling.
10) THE BEE ROOM:
The bee room has partly brick walls, a CHROMDECK roof and it is a steel structure. The 25m2 building for the bees has an aluminum window and front door. The building has single and 3 phase electricity as well as neon lights. There are 120 bee hives with supers, and there are 4 different bee sites where the bee hives are packed. This is to provide optimal pollination and to harvest honey ( which is why the bee room has been erected). Currently an experienced beekeeper is helping with the harvesting of the honey.
11) DIESEL STORAGE:
There are 5 diesel tanks with the combined capacity of holding a total of 10 500 diesel. They are connected in line with an electricity pump, counter and filling nozzle.
12) NEW DE-HUSKING/ DRYING/ PROCESSING SHED FOR MACADAMIA DE-HUSKING:
There is a 4 lane pneumatically operated, de-husker with a 2.4 meter tumbler with 20mm slots, all relevant sorting conveyors with a light canopy, rerun conveyor and a separate husk sorting conveyor with a husk rerun to the de-husker VSD controlled sorting table.
OUTSIDE: A hopper to tip nuts in the sunken husk, built with bricks, and with a holding capacity of 6m2. It has a VSD conveyor, controlled to feed to the de-husker inside the shed.
DRYING FACILITY: This has all been done with galvanized material: It has a holding capacity of 150 ton. All the individual bins have fans for drawing hot air trough a radiator heated up by a 300kw kettle. The bins are totally enclosed on the top, with a moisture/ RH probe with 2 extractor fans on each side of the enclosed area to suck out any moisture. Probe control is electronically set to the ideal RH level. The circulation of the air in the bins and fan corridor, dry the air out, thus drying the nuts in the bins. There are 21 bins of 7.5 ton capacity per bin.
AFTER DRYING: The nuts get transferred via conveyor to a final sorting table. There they get split to: either being loaded on a truck to be delivered to a factory of choice, OR to a rope sizer that grades the nuts into 4 different sizes, and then dropped into the relevant bins. From here, they are elevated into a cracker-out with a shaker table, then to 2 stainless steel tables to be sorted by hand, OR to a food grade sorting conveyor for grading. All nut processing equipment, from the cracker onwards, is made from stainless steel.
13) KETTLE:
The heat source is made by a 300kw Bosman Boilers Kettle that supplies hot water to the radiator inside the drying facility. The kettle is in it`s own building with IBR roofing, it has a steel structure and a concrete floor.
14)MACADAMIA OIL PROCESSING BUILDING / AGRI PROCESSING:
This building is a brick building with a roof, a ceiling, a concrete floor and aluminum framed doors and windows. There are single and 3 phase electricity plug points available, with a new DB board. There is an Oelwerke 7.5kw Oil Press, cold virgin Macadamia oil, on a galvanized stand with an oil drip, into a stainless steel bin. The oil is transferred via a mobile pump to another stainless steel bin on a stand with it`s own pump, for filtering oil through a paper filtering system. From here, it transported via a gravity system to a next door building. There is an air-conditioner installed as well as glass doors and tinted windows.
15) MACADAMIA OIL BOTTLING/ KERNEL PROCESSING BUILDING:
The building has been built with brick walls that have been plastered, roof, PVC ceiling, cement floors, aluminum windows and a double entrance door. There are single phase and 3 phase electricity plug points. 2 X 1000 Liter stainless steel holding tanks with an ABC Hansen Grear pump, all connected via food grade hoses, to pump in various directions to a stainless steel, bottle filler table. There are various stainless steel tables and a brand new roasting oven AND milling machine, to produce Macadamia meal. There is a moisture testing machine with a printer, to print out test results for every batch of Macadamias to be pre-delivered to a factory, or the PRE processing on the farm that involves making Cold Press Virgin Macadamia oil, with the farm`s own press and filtering system. The nuts of this farm Have NO SOYA ALLERGY PROBLEMS. The kernels are roasted or salted or made into Macadamia meal for baking or flavoring. This building has air-conditioning and tinted windows and doors.
16) STAFF ACCOMMODATION::
The staff accommodation consists of 16 rooms with an ablution facility with showers, hot water and toilets. The building has a DB board of it`s own and all the rooms have pre-paid electricity. There is a kitchen/ cooking area as well.
17) There are 17 water filling points spread all over the Macadamia orchards and all on 63mm HDPD Class 8 to 12 poly pipe, with steel upright filling points, with layflex hoses on the ends. The water is for filling water carts, spraying carts or fire carts. This water comes from 2 concrete reservoirs that gravity feeds into the pipelines, one side has a pressure pump to increase flow. One of the concrete reservoirs comes from the office enclosure, that has a roof of concrete and the other is on top of the silo near the office, whilst the ground floor, and the floor higher up, below the concrete reservoir of the silo is utilized as a shed. These 2 concrete reservoirs are supplied by 2 pumps, one from the dam and the other from a small fountain dam. The cable is 1 km of surfix or armored cable and HDPE pipe. The 2 pumps are regulated by float switches to keep the 2 reservoirs full. The concrete reservoirs supply the garden, workshop as well as the staff accommodation with water, also on a pressure pump system.
18) DRINKING WATER:
This water is supplied by a borehole, equipped with a pump that works off solar as well as electricity ( in case it has been overcast or raining for a few days. It switches automatically to electricity and back to solar when the sun comes out. The pump fills 20 000 liter ( 4 X 5 000 liter) water tanks. They supply the 2 houses with water via a pressure pump system with a float switch.
19) SOLAR BUILDING:
This building has been built with bricks and then plastered with a IBR roof and ceiling. It has aluminum double doors for the solar area and an aluminum framed window.. There is a second double door for the generator room with galvanized air vents for ventilation. The floors are reinforced concrete. The solar is 110KVH, inverter 253KVH battery, full of the grid. 150KVA Genset connecter for back-up solar charging.
20) GENERATOR:
The 150 KVA Perkins, 6 cylinder TURBO air cooler has a switchover (250 amp) installed and supplies electricity when /if needed.
21) EARTHEN DAM:
The dam has been enlarged and strengthened.
22) HORSE STABLES/ TACK ROOM/ STOREROOM FOR FEED:
There are 10 stables, open and ventilated, with brick walls on the sides and the back has concrete flooring. The stables have IBR roofing and CCA treated poles, a lunging ring and 2 excellent arenas. There are 5 grazing camps with installed water troughs, that work automatically. The tack room and veranda are used as a club house and there is a bathroom. There is also a steel cabinet installed to keep all the horse tack and medicines safe. The feeding room has recently been added to keep all the needed feed safe from weather changes.
23) NEWLY BUILT STOCK STORAGE SHED:
This is a steel structure of 18 X 30 meters in size. The building has an IBR sink roof and cladding with a concrete "apron" all round. There are 2 large door openings so that a super-link truck can drive through the building with ease, and also park inside the shed, to off load stock or food. The floor has been G5 filled and compacted. The purpose of this super large shed is to be able to store bulk food for the horses and the cattle, fertilizer as well as Macadamia shells for use with the boiler, as well as shavings for the stables and surplus timber.
24) HOUSING:
MAIN HOUSE: This house has been renovated recently and as you enter the house, there is a spacious entertainment room, with a bar area. Stackable glass doors opens widely to the unique, large swimming pool. The house has 5 spacious bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. There is a spacious lounge/ TV room. The kitchen is spacious and welcoming with a tearoom, a back veranda and a laundry room. The beautiful, spacious garden is landscaped with a fountain water feature near the pool. The house has been built, bricked and plastered, it is tiled and carpeted. The house has a sink roof and is a massive 588 m2. The house comes with a double, wooden door, automated garage. There is also a 3rd garage of 28m2.
SECOND HOUSE: This house has been totally rebuilt and renovated in 2021/ 2022. It is a charming house that has solid wooden window frames and doors. It has been fitted with a new roof and new built in cupboards. There is a spacious lounge/ dining area as well as a veranda. The kitchen has also been modernized with plenty of cupboard space and a laundry/ scullery. There are 2 comfortable bedrooms and a modern bathroom. There is a 3rd bedroom that is currently being utilized as a home office/ study. The size of this house is 139m2.
FLAT: To be renovated in future as a guest suite. 71m2.
25) DOG KENNELS:
There is a quality, enclosed area with a concrete flooring in the residential area and there is a second kennel in said kennel, in the workshop area for the security guard`s dog.
26)POULTRY PEN:
There are two quality chicken coops with open grazing to the one side. It has been fenced off with diamond mesh and concrete at the bottom of the fence to keep the chickens in and the dogs out.
27) NET HOUSE:
This is protective netting where vegetables are being grown.
28) FENCES:
A HUGE effort went into erecting top quality fencing and is as follows:
1) All fences are fully galvanized BONNOX mesh and all steel material has been either treated or galvanized. The poles have been concreted into the ground, 1 meter deep by 0.5 x 0.5 meter concrete holes. all fences are as new and very well maintained at all times.
2) All the fences around the farm are 2 meters high with 8 electrified single steel wires and isolators onto BONNOX mesh with an alarm facility of 11 000 volts with 2 druid and 18 immobilizers on back-up batteries to outlast power failures ( very unlikely due to solar plant and back-up invertors).
3) The conservancy fencing was done similar as above, but without the electrified function.
4) The workshop and the residential area have 2.4 meter high Diamond mesh with concrete at the bottom AND razor wire on the outside from top to bottom.
The current electrified fences keep all human, bushpig and buck, as well as monkeys out. Monkeys can be a huge problem, damaging young Macadamia nuts and ultimately destroy your crop.
29) GATES:
The farm, workshop, residential areas AND the dam area have proper galvanized, sliding gates. The farm`s entrance and camera works off a solar system as well as a PT2 camera at the main gate. There are 5 more sliding gates spread all over the farm that operate manually.
GENERAL:
Basically all the buildings have concrete "aprons" all round. The farm is very flat for the province and the area leans towards an easy crack-out of 40% plus and higher on the Macadamias. The rainfall, on average, recorded over almost 20 years is 1350mm per year. ( such report is available). That gives the opportunity to farm dry land, without irrigation. The farmer does a lot to put down compost for water retention and the soil preparation to maintain good moisture levels during drier periods, like in winter. The farm has been fully developed over the last 10 years by the farmer, from a cane farm to a Macadamia farm. The interested investor will buy the farm as the trees mature. Harvests will increase yearly as the trees mature and the yearly harvest increases to it`s full capacity and turnover. There is also a fire car shed that houses fire equipment and 3 phase electricity and lights. The shed is 50 square meters.
Management/ transfer management can be negotiated.
Approved buyer/ investor with available funds.
The farm is sold as a growing concern on a basis of WALK IN, WALK OUT.
All farm and domestic animals are excluded from the sale.
There are also surplus tools and equipment that are excluded from the sale ( to be confirmed at point of sale ).
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